Savory split pea and rice zucchini cake

It looked like a badjie pie, it smelt like a badjie pie but it was not a badjie pie at all.

They were so upset with me, when I served them this cake because they kept telling me that I forgot the sweetcorn when it fact there is no sweetcorn here but again the badjie pie confusion held strong.

This recipe does require some prep beforehand, the dhal mixture needs to be soaked for a couple of hours, then ground and allowed to stand overnight to ferment. I will tell you that this is the first time I have made an Indian dish that required time to ferment. Boy was there a lot of bubbles waiting for me in the morning, when I opened the container .

After my parents got their head around the fact that no much how many slices they ate they were never going to get sweetcorn they seemed to enjoy the cake, light and fluffy and moist but not overly wet like a badjie pie and just one bite and it crumbles in your mouth.